Proxy and No such realm NULL

2003-10-16 Thread Josh Howlett
I have a proxy server configured to proxy to the NULL realm.

This has worked fine until recently when it has started to silently drop
RADIUS requests rather than forward them. The NAS does not recieve any
response and so rejects users.

My hypothesis is that the RADIUS server it is proxying to becomes
unresponsive temporarily, and so the proxy server marks it dead. Thus,
when the next RADIUS requests comes along it has no server to proxy it
to, thus it returns an error about the realm.

Would this hypothesis be consistent with the No such realm NULL error?

A possible flaw in this hypothesis is that the dead time is configured
at ten minutes (dead_time = 600) yet the server continues to drop RADIUS
packets beyond this time.

I would be interested in any ideas or suggestions to fix this.

many thanks, josh.



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Re: Proxy and No such realm NULL

2003-10-16 Thread Chris Brotsos
Josh,

I don't really deal with the NULL realm, so I'm not 100% sure of a certain 
configuration option's actions with said realm, but you might want to try 
setting 'wake_all_if_all_dead = yes' in the proxy.conf file. Assuming that 
wake_all_if_all_dead works with the NULL realm, this would at least help 
you test your hypothesis.

HTH,

Chris
At 10:57 AM 10/16/2003, you wrote:
I have a proxy server configured to proxy to the NULL realm.

This has worked fine until recently when it has started to silently drop
RADIUS requests rather than forward them. The NAS does not recieve any
response and so rejects users.
My hypothesis is that the RADIUS server it is proxying to becomes
unresponsive temporarily, and so the proxy server marks it dead. Thus,
when the next RADIUS requests comes along it has no server to proxy it
to, thus it returns an error about the realm.
Would this hypothesis be consistent with the No such realm NULL error?

A possible flaw in this hypothesis is that the dead time is configured
at ten minutes (dead_time = 600) yet the server continues to drop RADIUS
packets beyond this time.
I would be interested in any ideas or suggestions to fix this.

many thanks, josh.



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Josh Howlett, Networking  Digital Communications,
Information Systems  Computing, University of Bristol, U.K.
'phone: 0117 928 7850 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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